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- 1. Imagine you could just… start again. Write a list of the 5 foundations you’d like to build your department on. What do they say about HOW you want the students to learn?
- 2. For more ideas www.chrisfuller.typepad.com To chat things over @chrisfullerisms To discuss and ask questions Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com Issues we face • Low profile for MFL in school • Low motivation levels • Low skill levels • Lack of time!
- 3. • Could you talk about... • Would you want to talk about... • How creative could you be when talking about... being healthy?items in a house? The traditional topics? - school - sports and leisure - environment - house and home - daily routine - food / healthy living - local area - family - weather - holidays
- 4. How do we encourage... - intercultural understanding? - linguistic creativity? - INTEREST? - spontaneity? - skill development?
- 5. Chilean earthquake - house and home (year 8) How I build in creativity + ICT...
- 7. Querría Me haría falta Me gustaría porque sería esencial útil inútil un lujo Use your word mat to match the vocab below. What do you think we will be learning about? I would like because I would want It would be I would need useless a luxury useful essential I would want I would need I would like because It would be essential useful useless a luxury
- 8. Work with a partner - Note down as many details in the back of your book as you can from the video
- 9. ?Exploiting word mats • Translation tasks (written) • Mini whiteboard tasks • Answering questions (set number of words?) • Improving model answers • Peer feedback
- 10. Dual language texts to add cultural context
- 11. ¿Qué necesitarías después de un terremoto ? Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo Claro = of course ¿En serio? = Seriously? Estás loco / a = you’re crazy ¡Qué va! = yeah right! Sería (it would be) más... QUE (more…than) menos… QUE (less…than) tan… como (as… as) Me gustaría (I would like) Necesitaría (I would need)
- 12. La próxima vez intenta… - incluir más detalle - practicar más - conectar tus frases (y, pero, muy, bastante, a veces, probablemente) - revisar tu trabajo para precisión - incluir más vocabulario nuevo La pronunciación fue… extraña inconsistente Las respuestas fueron rápidas sin pausa con pausa buenas malas La conversación fue basura aceptable genial La variedad fue… de diez (10) 1 = uno 6 = seis 2 = dos 7 = siete 3 = tres 8 = ocho 4 = cuatro 9 = nueve 5 = cinco 10 = diez 1 54 32 With thanks to Nina Elliot @senoraelliott
- 13. Your challenge: 1) Design a digital Shelterbox containing 10 items that you would want after a disaster 2) Rank them 1 to 10- 1 the most important 3) Use the word mat to explain WHY you would want that item
- 14. What did you do in your bedroom last night?!
- 16. How would you approach the challenge? - What language would you use? - How would you present it?
- 17. Uruguayan drug legalisation -healthy living (year 8)
- 18. Your end of unit project this half term will be to create a blog post on your attitude to addiction and drug legalisation. Obviously, the best blog posts aren’t just text- what else might yours include? Spend 5 minutes with a partner discussing… a) What your post might include b) What words you might need?
- 19. You have 25 minutes to… Create a vocab list of at least 20 words for yourself on the topic of “health”- not just drugs! Write the Spanish and the English This must include… • 5 infinitives (AT LEAST)- words that in English begin “to…” eg “to drink” Remember: these end in –ar , -er or -ir • 5 opinions eg “healthy” I have a list of 9 words- if you get more than 3 of them you get 2 merits
- 20. You have 5 minutes to… Swap words with other pairs - Get at least 3 more infinitives - + 1 more opinion
- 21. My words fumar – to smoke tomar – to take beber – to drink comprar – to buy prohibir – to ban horrible – horrible ilegal – illegal enfermo – ill sano – healthy
- 22. My words fumar tomar beber comprar prohibir horrible ilegal enfermo sano
- 23. fumar tomar beber comprar prohibir horrible ilegal enfermo sano Quiero = I want Voy a= I am going to se debe = you should porque = because menos = less más = more es = it is te hace = it makes you
- 24. 1) I am ill and I have a cough- it’s horrible Estoy enfermo y tengo tos- es horrible 2) Es importante de prohibir las drogas porque son peligrosas It’s important to ban drugs as they are dangerous 3) Cuando era joven quería probar un cigarillo pero ahora prefiero hacer ejercicio porque es sano When I was young I used to want to try a cigarette but now I prefer to do exercise because it’s healthy Use the grids in front of you to translate the following phrases Title= Mis opiniones sobre el salud (My opinions about health) 2
- 25. ? 2
- 26. Writing challenge: You have 20 minutes to describe your opinions on health and addiction 1) What was your attitude to smoking when you were younger 2) What your attitude to smoking is now 3) Do you think we should legalise drugs? 4) What do you think we should do to stay healthy? 5) What would you do in the future, if you could, either to stay healthy or to have fun? 2
- 27. Writing challenge: You have 20 minutes to describe your opinions on health and addiction 1) What was your attitude to smoking when you were younger 2) What your attitude to smoking is now 3) Do you think we should legalise drugs? 4) What do you think we should do to stay healthy? 5) What would you do in the future, if you could, either to stay healthy or to have fun? 2 stars and a wish2
- 28. Who communicating FOR? Issue 2: lack of self-belief
- 29. What can you work out from this government campaign? 3
- 30. 3
- 31. A) Find the following phrases in the text 1. The regulated and controlled legalisation La legalización regulada y controlada 2. At the moment the situation provokes En este momento la situación provoca 3. It is an impossible fight Es una lucha imposible 4. More problems than the drugs themselves Más problemas que las drogas sí mismas 5. Drug trafficking causes a “dramatic situation” El narcotráfico causa una “situación drámatica” 6. Owing to their strong addiction Debido a su fuerte addición 3
- 32. Can you think on your feet? Tell your partner how you’d say the following words and phrases… 3
- 33. In my opinion you should try drugs because they don’t cause problems of memory En mi opinión Se debe probar drogas porque no causan problemas de memoria 3
- 34. I believe that drugs are a part of growing up but they are harmful and boring Creo que las drogas son una parte de la juventud pero son nocivas y aburridas 3
- 35. From my point of view drugs they are stupid and you should not legalise them Desde mi punto de vista las drogas son estúpidas y no se debe legalizarlas 3
- 36. Now practise this with your partner- 1 says the English, the other says the Spanish - Who can build the longest sentence? - Use… y = and Sin embargo = however Pero = but También = also No obstante = nevertheless Además = furthermore 3
- 37. ¿Cuál es tu opinión de las drogas? Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo 3
- 38. Homework: 1) Type up your response to ¿Cuál es tu opinión de las drogas? 2) Add it to the Padlet wall 3
- 39. ¿Cuál es tu opinión de las drogas? Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo Claro = of course ¿En serio? = Seriously? Estás loco / a = you’re crazy ¡Qué va! = yeah right! 4
- 40. ¿Cuál es tu opinión del alcohol? Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo Claro = of course ¿En serio? = Seriously? Estás loco / a = you’re crazy ¡Qué va! = yeah right! 4
- 41. ¿Cuál es tu opinión del tabaco? Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo Claro = of course ¿En serio? = Seriously? Estás loco / a = you’re crazy ¡Qué va! = yeah right! 4
- 42. I want Quiero 4
- 43. To smoke fumar 4
- 44. To drink beber 4
- 45. ¿Se debe legalizar las drogas? DEBATE Drug dealer Parent Anti-drugs campaigner Teacher Drug user 17 year old 4 Follow-up homework - Type up your conclusions for the blog? - Reading image task on a blog? - Continue the debate on Edmodo?
- 48. Wespeke I’d love your feedback on this!
- 50. Your project brief Exeter City FC is interested in signing a 26 year old French striker on a free transfer. Leyton Orient and York are also both interested. He left Ligue 3 club Strasbourg at the end of last season after 4 years, scoring 56 goals in 148 games. He is married with 3 children (aged 7, 5 and 2)
- 51. Your 2challenges today Challenge 1 • Create a multimedia video in FRENCH to attract the striker to Exeter City- no longer than 2 minutes. • This video will be uploaded to a blog www.europeandayoflanguages2013.wordpress.com • The video with the most views by 12 midday, Wednesday 2nd October will win.
- 52. Your 2challenges today Challenge 2 • Create a separate, different presentation in FRENCH to lure the player in person- no more than 3 minutes. • You will be presenting this in front of the other teams at 1.00 THIS AFTERNOON. • This must be business-like. You will be cut off at 3 minutes and all team members must speak.
- 53. Going forwards When you leave today it will be YOUR responsibility to develop to drive traffic to your video. Ideas... • Posters around school • School website? • QR codes? • Speak to family / friends / neighbours We are looking to run this across various venues next year- anyone interested?
- 55. What other topics do you hate teaching? - How could we twist it and let the students be creative? - What support would you need to provide?
Editor's Notes
- This is not a session about teaching about pencil cases. Or about how to more effectively discuss what a teenager was doing in their bedroom last night. Those things are not going to persuade teenagers who do not see the point in learning a language that your lesson is going to change that. The first part of this morning is to reflect on the WHAT that we’re teaching before we can even think about the HOW we teach.
- Write these up+ add to them? Then generate thoughts on news items / cultural elements that could be combined with them to add depth
- Match items
- Video deductions
- Review and reflect in french
- iPad EDL day
- Spend 2 minutes: how would you approach the challenge? What kind of language would you need? How might you present it?
- Mini whiteboard task
- Mini whiteboard task
- Mini whiteboard task
- http://europeandayoflanguages2013.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/chumleigh-2/